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DrBearhands

Why the hate against FP?

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Txai

No hate at all. I really love the FP principles, but i think technology will move towards something hybrid, not purely functional

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DrBearhands

Ah well, that's fair, considering many popular 'functional' languages are actually just functional style (i.e. not pure). Hell, that includes Haskell without extensions.

I predict the opposite though: we are currently rather hybrid and the future will be pure, simply because making effects explicit makes them easier to deal with by automated systems.

Admittedly, this argument has been given since the invention of FP, but I think it had some catching up to do for practical use and we are just now at the turning point (and have passed it for some cases).

I don't think the future will be (modern) Haskell though.